Perhaps for those of us who already know our way around the unix filesystem and PD libraries, we could just
sudo cp -r /usr/lib/pd/extra/* /path/to/pdextended
...or perhaps just add /usr/lib/pd/extra to the startup path.
I think if one knows how to compile an extern it's probably a safe bet that one knows how to link, copy, sudo etc.
Perhaps in fact, the best way to deal with this is to put some lines like: " If you are using externals you have compiled yourself, you may want to put the following path into the startup paths from File->Path... (Linux / Windows) or PD->Settings...->Path... (Mac OSX):
/usr/lib/pd/extra "
...into the Readme.html file.
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----- Original Message ---- From: Roman Haefeli reduzent@gmail.com To: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at Cc: Pd List pd-list@iem.at Sent: Thu, 16 September, 2010 8:22:18 Subject: Re: [PD] Pd-extended 0.42.5 release candidate 6 released!
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 18:57 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
When people use Pd-extended 0.42.5, they expect that certain libraries will be there, and they will be a certain version. For example Pd-extended 0.42.5 includes Gem 0.92.3. So you can say "my patch works with Pd-extended 0.42.5" and it'll work with any installation of Pd-extended 0.42.5.
I totally got that. And I never meant to put that in question.
If Pd-extended 0.42.5 also looks at /usr/lib/pd, then someone could install Gem 0.93 there and Pd-extended would use it. Let's say Gem 0.93 introduces an obscure bug which breaks your patch. Then someone who has installed Pd-extended 0.42.5 can no longer be sure that the patch will always work with Pd-extended 0.42.5.
That's why I proposed to put the path /usr/lib/pd/extra last in the order. So Pd-extended would still load it's own Gem and not the manually installed one. It's really *_only_* about making it easier to load libraries that are *_not_yet_* part of Pd-extended while at the same time not interfere with the libraries that are already part of Pd-extended. I hope I could make myself clear now.
Roman
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